56 Responses to “Free for All: 07/24/12”

The so-called experts in a marathon coverage of most any event often seem as randomly stupid as any average person. I just listen to one talk on CBS THIS MORNING about what a skilled shot Holmes must have been with a “50% hit rate”. The guy was shooting into a packed crowd with a shotgun for Pete sake!

The claim is: if “X” is done then it’s more likely that “Y” will be done.

But “X” can be the government banning assault rifles or it can be removing a ban on assault rifles. And “Y” can then be banning hi-caliber rifles or it could be unstable persons using an assault rifle.

NY Mayor Michael Bloomberg: “I don’t understand why police officers across this country don’t stand up collectively and say we’re going to go on strike, we’re not going to protect you unless you, the public, through your legislature, do what’s required to keep us safe.”

Yeah, that’ll really knock down gun sales, the thought by the public that the police won’t be around to protect them, that they’ll be on strike.

So, what if the police think the rights of the accused are too lenient? That protections for defendants are too strong and don’t “keep us safe.” Should they be taken away if the police threaten to go out on strike?

How about death penalty appeals? Miranda warnings? Exclusionary rule? All out of the window because the police may walk?

As they like to do in Congress, NY Mayor Michael Bloomberg revised and extended his earlier remarks noted above: “I don’t mean literally go on strike…. In fact in New York they can’t go on strike–there’s a law against it. ”

So when he said, “I don’t understand why police officers across this country don’t stand up collectively and say we’re going to go on strike” it was a figure of speech. A metaphor, a simile.

It doesn’t pay running as a Republican here in Monroe County, they never win. All the action is in the Democratic Primary. Never voted for a Republican President, not even Lincoln, not even an Ohio favorite son. The coal unions were king before all the mines closed. Democrats were the friend of the unions People usef to drive 50 miles to show their kids what a Republican looked like Mitt just might be the first to buck history here. Obama has really soured the locals.

So I’d really like to know what’s going on with the Jacksons. Rumor has it that Katherine Jackson has been held hostage by agents of her supposedly dead son, Michael, for reprogramming. That when she returns to California, she will throw a wet Blanket on the rest of her litter of misfits.

I saw what looked like a parody of an, MSNBC commercial last night at the gym. It had all the “Lean Forward” stuff, and Al Sharpton in front of a bridge with his arms out. But I count’t hear what was said.

Jack Cafferty says 200,000 trucking jobs are going unfilled, then reads a bucnch of emails calling people too lazy to work. Simplify much, Jack? You don’t just waltz in and grab a truck; it takes training and licensing. Are 200,000 employers offering that schooling? I doubt it.

What I’ve surmised about those trucking jobs is that compared to paramedics, the education costs less and takes less time, for a job that pays more. That all assumes that the reporting is accurate, which can be a bit of a leap these days.

I know in parts of South Texas, they don’t have enough drivers to transport the oil/gas being pumped so they’ve had to limit how much is actually pumped. Those drivers need a few extra stamps due to the hazardous materials but I’m sure it’s not to difficult to obtain.

I don’t understand the logic behind MSNBC’s Olympics coverage. If you’re going to start airing a game, you stay with it until the end. ESPN understands this (unless it’s an IndyCar race, then we dump it to a network nobody gets).

There was one game that started late so, as a result, MSNBC had to air the second game on tape delay. Just before 6pm, they cut away to announce the final score and went to Al Sharpton’s show. Either you’re going to be a political operation or you’re going to be a network broadcasting the Olympics. You can’t be both.

Mitt Romney thinks you’re stupid and will vote for him no matter what. In a question from Brian Williams about gun control, Mitt said Holmes got ammo he “wasn’t supposed to have”. That’s a lie. Everything was purchased legally.

Then Brian asked if there should be limits on the amount of weaponry people can purchase. Mitt said no, we should prevent bad people from getting it. Uh, what? How are you gonna do that without limiting what they can purchase? That interview was an amalgam of lies and words that didn’t add up to actual sentences.